Being John Malkovitc

Started tracking a song for a WHO TRIBUTE CD I'm putting out on iREGULAR. The song I'm doing is 5:15 off the Quadrophenia album. My old drummer Mike Ditmore is going to play drums on it, so it's gonna be listed as a Kill Switch...Klick track. Rented Being John Malkovitch. What a freaky-ass film. Very interesting premise. A thumbs up for a rental.

Basio

Working on the lyrics for Bassio (working title), a rippin' groovy blues track featuring James Whiton on Upright Bass. Lyrics can take the longest to write when your trying to match them to a finished piece of music. This seems to be the case for all the tracks on my new demo/CD. Monster is being a pain in the ass. The lyrics are coming in fits and spurts. I'm taking a break from it for awhile to get a fresh perspective. The Flathand 5 tapes are still a sittin' I need more time.

Beneath The Trees

Eric Cooley came by my studio to begin sorting tracks for the new Faith & Disease album, Beneath The Trees to be be released by Projekt Records September 12th, 2000. I am going to be re-working the Kill Switch..Klick song Eventually that was originally released on the album deGenerate, as well as doing a little keyboard work for the CD. Eric & Dara Rossenwasser both performed on the original version of Eventually, and now the song will be appearing on the new Faith & Disease disc as a sister version. Isabella is completely mixed and I began working on Monster once again.

Lo-Fi

Jeremy came over yesterday and overdubbed the snare and kick on Isabella. I cut and pasted his various takes together and it's sounding pretty good. I've gotta fix a few spots. It's a bit'o musical surgery. I read this article on Moby the other day that inspired me. He said he sometimes takes months to finish a song. I usually do to...so now I don't feel like I'm excessively anal about
my music. It's difficult being the song writer, musician, producer & engineer all at the same time. You have a tendency to over get whelmed by a song. Is the kick too loud? Are the vocals getting buried on the chorus? You can nit pick it too death. But at the same time you have to be detailed enough so that the song sounds like a full production (unless you are going for an extremely lo-fi sound). That's why it can take a one man operation so long to complete an album. In the end good or bad at least I did it my way.